AP - A Texas museum hopes a document found in its archives turns out to be an authentic government copy of Abraham Lincoln's eloquent letter consoling a mother thought to have lost five sons in the Civil War.

AP - Pakistani security forces escorted container trucks and oil tankers through the Khyber Pass on Monday after Pakistan reopened the supply route critical to transporting supplies to NATO and U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

AP - Flooded country roads. Roving packs of dogs with no owners in sight. Overgrown weeds as far as the eye can see.

AP - Diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and recovering from a grenade attack, Iraq war veteran Ian Newland wanted to pursue a business degree after his discharge from the Army last year. What he didn't want to have to do was set foot in a classroom.

AP - As much as 2 feet of snow fell around parts of the Great Lakes region Monday, making driving hazardous and closing some schools.

AP - Pakistan sent troops armed with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns to escort trucks Monday along a major supply route for U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, part of new security measures to combat militant attacks.

AP - Monday was unpacking day for the astronauts at the international space station.

AP - A man who committed murder at age 11 pleaded guilty to drug possession Monday, less than two years after he was released from juvenile detention for the killing.

AP - Pakistan sent troops armed with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns to escort trucks Monday along a major supply route for U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, part of new security measures to combat militant attacks.

AP - Residents of a once neatly kept mobile home park returned Monday to see for themselves how a wildfire turned it into a desolate landscape of charred metal and blackened sticks.

AP - A man who was unconscious in a hospital when ricin was found in his Las Vegas motel room has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in federal prison for possessing the deadly toxin.

AP - Astronauts hitched a giant shipping crate full of home improvement 'goodies' to the international space station on Monday, a critical step for boosting the population in orbit.

AP - A deer hunter has been charged with manslaughter after a bullet he fired killed a toddler inside her grandparents' Hudson Valley home, police said Monday.

AP - For a decade, the National Park Service has known that the 3,000-foot granite cliff hanging over a tourist village at Yosemite is susceptible to colossal rockslides like one last month that crushed cabins and sent schoolchildren running for their lives.

AP - Bonnie Rabin is fond of saying that divorce lawyers are a bit like liquor stores. They're busiest in the really good times, and the really bad.

AP - A man who made enough ricin to kill hundreds of people — and kept it with him for a decade as he moved to various Western states — was sentenced Monday to 3 1/2 years in federal prison for possessing the deadly toxin.

AP - A former Ivy League professor pleaded guilty Monday to making child pornography and lying to government officials, charges that stemmed from his relationship with a Brazilian teenager.

AP - Five men accused of plotting to attack soldiers at Fort Dix hardly mentioned the military installation in the months before their arrest, a key government informant testified Monday.

AP - The case of U.S. vs. Lori Drew is viewed in legal circles as landmark Internet law, but as outlined in government documents with its neighborhood feuds and a teen's suicide, it reads more like a plotline for a made-for-TV drama.

AP - Army and Navy recruiters took one look at 330-pound Ulysses Milana and told him to forget about joining. ''You've got to lose weight,'' Milana remembers them saying.

AP - A botched ambush robbery that left a mortgage lawyer dead had been set up by his business partner, police said Monday after arresting the suspect and two people he's accused of paying to commit the holdup.

AP - Scientists, environmentalists and government and industry officials from around the world meet this week for a summit on greenhouse gas emissions that their host, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, hopes will highlight the economic benefits of pursuing green technologies.

AP - A mysterious disappearance of an Alzheimer's patient during a layover at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport seven years ago became a homicide case Monday after an examination of skeletal remains found miles from the airfield.

AP - The U.S. Bureau of Land Management will round up fewer wild horses and try to shuffle funds within the agency to hold off for now on killing large numbers of the animals in an effort to control herds and spiraling costs, an official said Monday.

AP - The state attorney general and sponsors of the ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage in California urged its Supreme Court to hear a series of lawsuits seeking to overturn the ban, saying the matter is too urgent to be unsettled.

AP - Attorneys for an abortion provider facing criminal charges questioned the former attorney general Monday, trying to show that the abortion opponent who started the investigation had intended to prosecute Dr. George Tiller even before taking office.

AP - North Dakota's health department will allow salty oil field wastewater to be sprayed on roads as a deicer or for dust control even though oil companies and environmental groups have questioned the practice.

AP - Nebraska lawmakers are proposing an age limit of 30 days for children who may be legally abandoned under the state's safe haven law.